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Board Approves Candidate Slate for 2010 Elections
The PASS Board of Directors has approved the Nominations Committee’s
slate of candidates for the 2010 Board of Directors election. Congratulations to
candidates Allen Kinsel, Andy Warren, Douglas McDowell, Geoff Hiten, and Mark
Ginnebaugh. And thanks to this year’s NomCom members for all their hard work.
Voting is set to run Sept. 1-15.
There has been a lot of community discussion around the elections
process this week. Here’s how to get up to speed on the elections procedures,
related blogs and forum discussions, and the candidates’ positions:
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Find process documents, NomCom ratings for interviewees, and many other details
on the Elections portal.
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Catch up with the latest blog posts on the
Elections Discussion page,
updated twice a day.
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Participate in
forum discussions about everything from election processes to candidate
positions on leveraging volunteers, enhancing Chapter support, and supporting
Women in Technology.
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Visit the Candidate
Campaign space to see candidate applications and platforms.
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Follow and join the twitter
conversation at #passvotes.
It’s All About Community: Why would you stay up until 4am
working on a presentation and then drive 8 hours to speak at a SQLSaturday when
you aren’t getting paid? Lynda Rab says it’s the same reason you’d spend hours
debating the injustices of a decision you don’t agree with or pay your own way
to attend PASS Summit.
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and help create a strong PASS community knowledge base. All participating PASS
members will receive the final results to help you assess your organization's
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Microsoft, CSS Sessions Added to Summit Lineup
Check out the 56 new program sessions from Microsoft
and the four additional sessions by Microsoft Customer Service and Support
(CSS), now available on the PASS Summit 2010
Program Sessions page. And don’t miss the new
pre/post-conference seminars by Microsoft’s Adam Saxton and Buck Woody. With less
than 10 weeks until PASS Summit, Nov. 8-11, now’s a great time to
register—learn
below how to save even more with the Chapter member discount and the
Pre/Post-Con Bundle!
Winning sessions in PASS Summit
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PASS Summit 2010.
Here are your winners!
Attention , Chapter members, save $200 on PASS
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Chapter Registration contest. Just register with the Chapter members discount code,
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identify your local Chapter during registration, you’ll be helping your Chapter
in the Chapter Registration contest:
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The Chapter with the most qualified registrations automatically wins a PASS
Summit 2010 sessions DVD set for each member who registered for Summit.
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In addition, every Chapter with three or more identified registrations is
entered in a drawing for a set of PASS Summit 2010 session DVDs for each of its
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We’ll announce the winning Chapters at the PASS Summit 2010 Chapter Luncheon
Nov. 11.
Last week to save with the
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